 O Caledonia ! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic child ! Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood...  A Poet Hero - Pagina 157di Marie Bothmer (Gräfin von), Mary gräfin von Bothmer - 1870 - 417 pagineVisualizzazione completa - Informazioni su questo libro
 | Walter Scott - 1843 - 732 pagine
...unhonoured, and unsung. n. O Caledonia 1 stern and wild, Meet nurse for ft poetic child ! Land of hrown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the...flood. Land of my sires ! what mortal hand Can e'er nntie the filial hand, That knits me to thy rugged strand ! Still, as I view each well-known scene.... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 pagine
...doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust, from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonoured, and unsung. 0 Chambers nigged strand ! Still as I view each well-known scene, Think what is now, and what hath been, Seems... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pagine
...down To the vile dust, from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonoured, and unsung. 0 Caledonia ! »tern nseen. In vain for him the officious wife prepares The fire fair blazing, and the I Still as I view each well-known scene, Think what is now, and what hath been, Seems as to me, of... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1844 - 614 pagine
...blood they owe them. Hence the spectre of tyranny which all the poor Scotch see overshadowing the " Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood." Poor men thmk that long ere now the law, if justly made, would have given a permanent tenure of the... | |
 | William Hamilton Maxwell - 1844 - 362 pagine
...but an imperfect estimate of the infinite beauty which he " who worships nature," will find in this " Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, — Land of the mountain and the flood." Ere long — if fate forfend not — thou and I will make its pilgrimage together. " We'll mark each... | |
 | Modern poetical speaker, Fanny Bury PALLISER - 1845 - 540 pagine
...doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonour'd, and unsung. — O Caledonia ! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic...the filial band That knits me to thy rugged strand ! SCOTT. PRAYER. PRATER is the soul's sincere desire, Unutter'd or exprest ; The motion of a hidden... | |
 | Charles Walker Connon - 1845 - 176 pagine
...have known a better DAY ; The harp, his sole remaining joy, Was carried by an orphan boy. Scott. 10. O Caledonia ! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic...the filial band, That knits me to thy rugged strand ! Idem. 11. Beneath our feet and o'er our head Is equal warning GIVEN ; Beneath us lie the countless... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1845 - 558 pagine
...doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust from whence he sprung, Unwept, nnhonoured, and unsung. O Caledonia ! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic...of my sires ! what mortal hand Can e'er untie the 61ial band That knits me to thy rugged strand ? Still, as I view each well-known scene, Think what... | |
 | 1845 - 1270 pagine
...6ne combination of all the features mentioned by Scott in his description of national landscape : " Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood." Geology. — The principal rocks are whinstone and slate. There are two quarries of the latter within... | |
 | Bernard Barton - 1845 - 280 pagine
...worth, Such objects to no transient ties, No frail and fleeting sympathies, Must evermore give birth. " Land of brown heath and shaggy wood ! Land of the mountain and the flood ! " As thy own Bard hath sung, " What shall untie the filial band Which knits unto thy rugged strand... | |
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